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The rise and fall of the British nanny.
- Text
- London, Hodder and Stoughton, 1972.
- 1972
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text JLE 77-484 Offsite When Miss Emmie was in Russia : English governesses before, during, and after the October revolution / Harvey Pitcher.
- Text
- London : Murray, 1977.
- 1977
- 1 Item
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Uneven developments : the ideological work of gender in mid-Victorian England / Mary Poovey.
- Text
- Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 1988.
- 1988
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text JLE 88-1214|m(SASB) Offsite Tyrant or victim? : a history of the British governess / Alice Renton.
- Text
- London : Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1991.
- 1991
- 1 Item
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Anna Leonowens : a life beyond the King and I / Leslie Smith Dow.
- Text
- Lawrencetown Beach, N.S. : Pottersfield Press, 1991.
- 1991
- 1 Item
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A distant thunder : intimate recollections of the Kaiser's court / Anne Topham ; [glossary and translations by Antje Purucker Kandell ; edited by Jill Mason ; additional research by Hazel Waldner and Maximilian Crisp].
- Text
- New York, N.Y. : New Chapter Press, c1992.
- 1992
- 1 Item
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Lettre adressée a Monseigneur le duc d'Orléans sur l'éloignement de ses enfans, proposé & projetté dernièrement par Madame de Sillery.
- Text
- [Paris] : De l'Imprimerie de Laporte, [1790?]
- 1790
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text *KVR 2854 Schwarzman Building - Rare Book Collection Room 328 Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person.
[Album of photographs of Japan] [graphic].
- Still image
- 189-?
- 1890
- 1 Resource
Available Online
https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/collections/851a7e00-c6ce-012f-379b-58d385a7bc34The little princesses / Marion Crawford ; with an introduction by A.N. Wilson.
- Text
- London : Duckworth, 1993.
- 1993-1950
- 1 Item
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The turn of the screw / Henry James ; edited by Peter G. Beidler.
- Text
- Boston : Bedford Books of St. Martin's Press, c1995.
- 1995
- 1 Item
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The Victorian governess / Kathryn Hughes.
- Text
- London ; Rio Grande, Ohio : Hambledon Press, 1993.
- 1993
- 1 Item
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Anna and the King of Siam [by] Margaret Landon, illustrated by Margaret Ayer.
- Text
- New York, The John Day company [1944]
- 1944
- 2 Items
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The governesses : letters from the colonies, 1862-1882 / Patricia Clarke.
- Text
- Hawthorn, Vic. : Hutchinson of Australia, 1985.
- 1985
- 1 Item
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The black fan [by] Mary Boyle O'Reilly.
- Text
- Chicago, New York, The Reilly & Lee Co. [c1928]
- 1928
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text NBO (O'Reilly, M. B. Black fan) Offsite The web of days, by Edna Lee.
- Text
- New York, D. Appleton-Century Co. 1947
- 1947
- 1 Item
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Zāhirat al-khadam wa-al-murabbiyāt wa-abʻaduha al-ijtimāʻīyah fī al-duwal al-Khalījīyah / ʻAbd al-Raʼūf al-Jardāwī.
- Text
- al-Kuwayt : Dhāt al-Salāsil, 1990.
- 1990
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text *OFK 97-3197 Offsite Jane Eyre / Charlotte Brontë ; edited by Beth Newman.
- Text
- Boston : Bedford Books of St. Martin's Press, c1996.
- 1996
- 1 Item
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A galaxy of governesses.
- Text
- London, D. Verschoyle [1954]
- 1954
- 2 Items
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Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text SSG (Howe, B. Galaxy of governesses) Offsite The governess : an anthology / edited by Trev Broughton and Ruth Symes.
- Text
- Stroud, Gloucestershire : Sutton Publishing, 1997.
- 1997
- 1 Item
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Otra vuelta de tuerca / Henry James ; estudio introductorio, cronología y notas de Vladimiro Rivas Iturralde.
- Text
- Quito, Ecuador : LIBRESA, [1996]
- 1996
- 1 Item
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A governess in the age of Jane Austen : the journals and letters of Agnes Porter / edited by Joanna Martin.
- Text
- London ; Rio Grande, Ohio : Hambledon Press, 1998.
- 1998
- 1 Item
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Reproductive prints after Jean Baptiste Siméon Chardin [graphic]
- Still image
- ca. 1848
- 1848
At home with the gentry : a Victorian English ladys diary of Russian country life / attributed to Amelia Lyons ; edited by John McNair.
- Text
- Nottingham, England : Bramcote Press, 1998.
- 1998
- 1 Item
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The complete governess : a course of mental instruction for ladies; with a notice of the principal female accomplishments : intended to facilitate the business of public establishments, and abridge the labour of private education / by an experienced teacher.
- Text
- London : Printed for Knight and Lacey ... ; Dublin : Sold by Westley and Tyrrel, 1826.
- 1826
- 1 Item
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Caroline Mordaunt; or, The governess. By Mrs. Sherwood.
- Text
- London, W. Darton and son [1835]
- 1835
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text 9-NASY (Sherwood, M. M. B. Caroline Mordaunt. 1835) Schwarzman Building - Rare Book Collection Room 328 Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person.
The sound of music [videorecording] / Thomas Viertel, Steven Baruch, Richard Frankel, Marc Routh, Jujamcyn Theaters, SFX Theatrical Group, Dede Harris/Jeslo Productions, The Rodgers & Hammerstein Organization, Jay Binder, Martin Rabbett present ; music by Richard Rodgers ; lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II ; book by Howard Lindsay and Russel Crouse ; [suggested by "The Story of the Trapp Family Singers" by Maria Augusta Trapp ; directed by Susan H. Schulman ; choreography by Michael Lichtefeld ; [video director] Stucker ; [video producer] Theatre on Film and Tape Archive, Betty L. Corwin, director.
- Moving image
- San Francisco, c2000.
- 2000
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Moving image NCOV 2424 Performing Arts Research Collections - TOFT Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Performing Arts Research Collections to submit a request in person.
Caroline Mordaunt; or, the Governess / by Mrs. Sherwood.
- Text
- London: William Darton and son, [1853]
- 1853
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text 9-NASY (Sherwood, M. M. B. Caroline Mordaunt. 1853) Schwarzman Building - Rare Book Collection Room 328 Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person.
Desert governess : an Englishwoman's personal experience with the Saudi royal family / Phyllis Ellis ; edited by Gordon Medcalf.
- Text
- Bridgnorth : TravellersEye, 2000.
- 2000
Jane Eyre [videorecording] / Annette Niemtzow, Janet Robinson, Pamela Koslow, Margaret McFeeley Golden, Jennifer Manocherian, and Carolyn Kim McCarthy present ; based on the novel by Charlotte Bronte ; book and additional lyrics by John Caird ; music and lyrics by Paul Gordon ; directed by John Caird & Scott Schwartz ; [video director] Stucker ; [video producer] Theatre on Film and Tape Archive, Patrick Hoffman, director.
- Moving image
- New York, c2001.
- 2001
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Moving image NCOV 2519 Videodiscs 1 and 2 Performing Arts Research Collections - TOFT Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Performing Arts Research Collections to submit a request in person.
Jane Eyre [videorecording] / Brooklyn Academy of Music, Bruce C. Ratner, chairman of the board, Karen Brooks Hopkins, president, Joseph V. Melillo, executive producer, presents ; [produced by] Shared Experience ; joint artistic directors, Nancy Meckler and Polly Teale ; producer, Rachel Tackley ; adapted and directed by Polly Teale ; [based on the novel by Charlotte Brontë] ; [video prod. company] Character Generators, Inc.
- Moving image
- Brooklyn, c2000.
- 2000
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Moving image NCOV 2601 Performing Arts Research Collections - TOFT Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Performing Arts Research Collections to submit a request in person.
Ḥikāyatī maʻa shaghghālatī : qiṣaṣ wa-maʼāsin wa-ʻibar wāqiʻīyah fī ḥayāt al-khādimāt / Buthaynah al-Sayyid al-ʻIrāqī.
- Text
- al-Riyāḍ : Dār Ṭuwayq lil-Nashr wa-al-Tawzīʻ, 2000.
- 2000
- 1 Item
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Adèle : Jane Eyre's hidden story / Emma Tennant.
- Text
- New York : William Morrow, c2002.
- 2002
- 1 Item
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Uncle Silas : a tale of Bartram-Haugh / by J. Sheridan Le Fanu ; illustrated by Charles W. Stewart.
- Text
- London : Folio Society, 1988.
- 1988-1864
- 1 Item
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Observations on the most important subjects of education : containing many useful hints to mothers, but chiefly intended for private governesses.
- Text
- London : Printed for W. Richardson ...; and sold by Darton, Harvey, & Darton ...; White, Cockrane, and Co. ...; J. Harris ...; and Tabart and Co. Juvenile Library ..., 1812.
- 1812
- 1 Item
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I could be good to you / Charlotte Keppel.
- Text
- New York : St. Martin's Press, c1980.
- 1980
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text JFD 81-2332 Schwarzman Building - General Research Room 315 Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person.
Such constant affectionate care : Lady Charlotte Finch royal governess & the children of George III / Jill Shefrin.
- Text
- Los Angeles, CA : Cotsen Occasional Press, 2003.
- 2003
- 1 Item
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Letters to a young governess : on the principles of education, and other subjects connected with her duties / By Susan F. Ridout.
- Text
- London : Published by Orger and Meryon ..., [1840?]
- 1840
- 1 Item
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The sultan's seal / Jenny White.
- Text
- New York : W. W. Norton, c2006.
- 2006
- 1 Item
Available Online
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Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre [sound recording].
- Audio
- New York City : CMS, [1970]
- 1970
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Audio *LZR 53594 [Disc] Performing Arts Research Collections - Recorded Sound Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Performing Arts Research Collections to submit a request in person.
Colette et Pauline sans témoin / Pauline Vérine ; préface de Anne de Jouvenel ; présentation de Nicole Vaillant Dubus.
- Text
- Nice : Vaillant, [2006]
- 2006
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text ReCAP 07-11284 Offsite Die Erzieherin von Königin Luise : Salomé de Gélieu / Claudia von Gélieu ; unter Mitarbeit von Christian von Gélieu.
- Text
- Regensburg : F. Pustet, c2007.
- 2007
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text ReCAP 08-6000 Offsite Jane Eyre on stage, 1848-1898 : an illustrated edition of eight plays with contextual notes / [edited by] Patsy Stoneman.
- Text
- Aldershot, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, c2007.
- 2007
- 1 Item
Available Online
http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip073/2006033508.htmlItem details Format Call Number Item Location Text JFE 07-4306 Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315 Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person.
Deti buri : roman / Din Kun︠t︡s ; [per. s angl. M.K. ︠I︡Akushinoĭ].
- Text
- Moskva : ︠T︡Sentrpoligraf, 2004.
- 2004
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text *QDY 07-3596 Offsite Cesira e Benito : storia segreta della governante di Mussolini / Gianni Scipione Rossi.
- Text
- Soveria Mannelli : Rubbettino, c2007.
- 2007
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text ReCAP 08-5383 Offsite Other people's daughters : the life and times of the governess / Ruth Brandon.
- Text
- London : Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2008.
- 2008
- 1 Item
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Bombay Anna : the real story and remarkable adventures of the King and I governess / Susan Morgan.
- Text
- Berkeley : University of California Press, c2008.
- 2008
- 1 Item
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Nurse Matilda.
- Text
- New York, c1964.
- 1964
- 2 Items
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Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text J FIC B Offsite Juliana Oakley : a tale / by Mrs. Sherwood ; revised by the Committee of Publication.
- Text
- Philadelphia : American Sunday School Union, 1827
- 1827
- 1 Item
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The sound of music [videorecording] / Drury Lane Productions, Drew DeSantis, producer, Abigail DeSantis, producer, Kyle DeSantis, producer, William Osetek, artistic director, Jason Van Lente, producer, Tom Van Lente, producer, presents ; music by Richard Rodgers ; lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein ; book by Howard Lindsay and Russel Crouse ; suggested by "The Story of the Trapp Family Singers" by Maria Augusta Trapp ; directed & choreographed by Rachel Rockwell.
- Moving image
- Oakbrook Terrace, Ill., 2012.
- 2012
- 1 Item
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Agnes Grey ; The tenant of Wildfell Hall / Anne Brontë ; with an introduction by Lucy Hughes-Hallett.
- Text
- New York : Knopf, 2012.
- 2012
- 1 Item
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